The Wednesday snow opportunity comes courtesy of a clipper, a fast moving disturbance from Canada, that will race through the metro area or just to our north. These kinds of systems usually don't have a lot of moisture to work with, but can drop a quick inch or so of snow in spots if they track across the region or just to the south. Right now, it seems we'll be right on the southern edge of possibly getting some light accumulating snow, but we could just get flurries.

Many questions remain for the late Thursday through Saturday period ...

As discussed yesterday, some areas of storminess to the south may try to spread precipitation into the area at the same time a dome of cold high pressure builds to the north. It's still not clear whether or not the high pressure will suppress the precipitation to the south or whether we'll be in for a long duration winter precipitation event. It's also still unclear exactly what the predominant precipitation type will be -- snow, ice or rain -- if any. Details on this situation should slowly emerge over the next several days.

of course it rained! Because I left every window in the house open to take advantage of the very sweet temperatures when I left at noon. I saw that squall line building up ... I should have known better .... :)

Got up to 73F here around 1PM before the clouds moved in. I would be alright if it just stayed like this from now on, and winter was over, not that it ever really started. Hopefully we get an early spring, a late spring would only make this winter seem that much worse.

I like my chances for at least some snow Wednesday and then again Friday into the weekend. I think the weekend has more potential to bring signicant precip to the area but its way too soon to speculate as there is no consistency amongst the models.

Tatyana: show me the nicest spring day you can imagine, and I'd still take a snowstorm over it. We always have plenty of nice spring days each year; what we need is more snow. (Well, what I want, at least.) :-)

Actually, the mid-atlantic is well known as having some of the nicest and longest springs of anywhere. While New England is cold and wet, socked in by backdoor cold fronts, in the 40s with rain, the mid-atlantic is typically sunny with days in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Snow Schmo. It's good for NOTHING. It was almost 78 degrees here in Dixie and loving every minute of it. I hope we never see another flake of God foresaken snow in the D.C area again EVER. I predict a decade of no snow. Besides, Al Gore, the greatest weather scientist of ALL TIME has predicted that we are in the midst of Global Warming brought on by mankind and we are doomed to never see our breath again! So get used to it. The Sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Snow? The weathermen and women in this city couldn't predict yesterday's weather today! Have they gotten one rain or snow event right so far this winter? Throw the computers out the window, and then look out the window once and a while!!!

Don't get your hopes up. The forecast is for two storms whith wintry-mix precipitation. The first one's a clipper that might not even drop snow on D.C. The second storm has more of a southerly track, but doesn't figure to be a huge snow-producer.

I hope you are correct. I hate Snow. I lived in Toledo for 3 years and Germany for more than that. Snow is highly overrated. And as another poster said, T.O is very close as is the Mid West, and Upstate NY, more snow that you could ever want. Leave us poor commuters out of it.